Sebastian Lüning (alt. Luening)

Credentials

Background

Sebastian Lüning (alternatively spelled Sebastian Luening) is a geologist currently working for Portuguese oil and gas energy corporation, Galp Energia, according to his LinkedIn profile. He formerly worked for the oil and gas company RWE Dea AG in Hamburg, Germany. He was the 2005/2006 Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna. [2]

Lüning is the author of several geo-scientific documentaries. He is also the co-author of Die Kalte Sonne (Translated, “The Cold Sun”) with Fritz Vahrenholt. The book claims that global warming is not due to human activity, but rather due to the sun. Vahrenholt formerly served as the CEO of RWE Dea AG.

Stance on Climate Change

Die Kalte Sonne claims that “global warming over the past 150 years part of a natural cycle that is characterized primarily by the sun.” [3]

Key Quotes

June, 2014

In his presentation at the 7th International Conference for Climate and Energy in Germany (the original presentation is in German), Lunning claims that warming is due to natural fluctuations in solar activity: [11]

“This is a geological context that unfortunately is lost on many people like physicists who believe their formulae more than they believe the true facts.” [11]

Talking about ice in Greenland:

“Despite the thousands of years of continuous warmth, the dramatic ice collapse never occurred.” [11]

He also calls the last 20 years of warming “statistically insignificant” and says that IPCC models have “no chance of success.” [11]

“If the Paris climate accord is ratified, or enforced locally by compliant governments, it will strangle the leading economies of the world with pointless carbon taxes and costly climate and energy policies, all with no sound basis in evidence or science […]” [8]

Publications

A search of Google Scholar lists 10 articles written by Sebastion Lüning in peer-reviewed journals related to geology and petroleum geology. He does not appear to have published any articles in peer-reviewed journals on the subject of climate change.

A full list of publications co-authored by Lüning is available here. [5]

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